Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Avery Hayes was briefly assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on Friday before being formally recalled tot eh NHL roster.<\/p>\n
The team has not announced the transaction, but it was reflected on the AHL\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
In reality, the maneuver was a paper transaction that maintains\u2019 Hayes\u2019 eligibility for the AHL\u2019s postseason. For players to remain eligible, they must be on an AHL affiliate\u2019s roster by 3 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
A right-handed shot, Hayes has appeared in six NHL games this season and has two goals while averaging 11:47 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n
At the AHL level, the 23-year-old Hayes has skated in 36 games and scored 30 points (19 goals, 11 assists).<\/p>\n
Hayes is in the first year of a two-year entry-level contract with a salary cap hit of $830,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins rookie forward Avery Hayes was briefly assigned to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-131775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}